Fun high school art projects

In this mixed media lesson, students will use three mediums to create a shaded, unified piece of art.

Several years ago I needed a lesson to cover a week's absence after a planned surgery. I wasn't sure if I'd get an art sub, and started getting that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach. What if they let the kids trash the room or waste supplies? It wasn't fair to assign a week of bogus activities or make the sub feel like a babysitter. The compromise was to have students create a monochromatic postcard with watercolor pencils. All the joy of painting with limited supplies and clean up…

Projects done by high school students in painting classes.

Click on the links below to access lesson plans for projects this semester. Lessons will be added after they have been introduced in class.

Neurographic Art has been a hit the past couple of years in middle school art rooms across the country! This mindful, intentional mark-making drawing method provides students with lots of freedom, choice, and the success of knowing that you can’t really do it wrong. A simple online search will yield dozens of video tutorials on…

Learn alcohol ink basics and how to make your own beautiful alcohol ink art with this DIY alcohol ink art for beginners tutorial.

Illustrations done on Popsicle sticks. Usually after dessert after dinner. Quite often while watching Sex and the City reruns.

This step-by-step tutorial for How To Make Easy Paper Mosaics for Kids is amazing! Let's make beautiful, custom DIY paper mosaics today.